Tasty Budd's in London reopened Thursday after a police raid, only to find itself in the cross-hairs of not one but two authorities bent on enforcing the law

A green rectangle covers the words "medical dispensary" on the Tasty Budd's street sign, which is operating as a compassion club, on Wharncliffe Road in London, Ont. on Thursday August 25, 2016. Craig Glover/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network

A London pot dispensary that reopened Thursday, a week after officers raided it, has suddenly found itself in the cross-hairs of not one but two authorities bent on enforcing the rules in an industry — marijuana — that’s become hazy under the Trudeau government’s vow to legalize pot.

Police reportedly delivered their warning Thursday to Tasty Budd’s, with staff there saying two plainsclothes officers told them the city’s police chief won’t tolerate an illegal pot shop in the city.

The flashy store had publicly opened in defiance of the law before last week’s raid.

“They came to deliver a message and take advantage of our open-door policy,” Jordan Johnson, Tasty Budd’s regional manager, said of the police.

The showdown over the dispensary, which has made no secret of its business and was raided even though two other below-radar operations in London have been left alone, escalated again Thursday with the city’s chief bylaw enforcement officer, Orest Katolyk, vowing to send enforcement officers to the store to make sure it’s following city rules. That includes a food licence for any pot-laced edibles the place might sell.

Tasty Budd’s franchise owner Mal McMeekin publicly vowed to reopen after the first crackdown, sending three company representatives to London this week.

Tight-lipped police wouldn’t answer questions about the alleged warning to the dispensary.

“We are not going to confirm at this time whether police attended,” said Const. Michelle Kasper. “And we’re not going to comment on an ongoing investigation, either.”

The shop, part of an East Coast franchise with five other locations, opened Aug. 12, selling marijuana, hash oil and cannabis-infused edibles to medicinal users.

Those edibles — things like peanut butter cups, cookies and brownies — caught the attention of Katolyk, who said his staff will soon visit the shop.

“If any business is in the process of selling food product, then they need a food shop licence,” he said, explaining that requires an inspection from the fire department and the public health unit.

Katolyk said his office hasn’t received any complaints about Tasty Budd’s. “We address the business licencing bylaw proactively,” he said.

While acknowledging the dispensary sold edibles during the six days it was open before the raid, Johnson said they’ll no longer offer the treats to avoid potential problems.

The store also painted over the words “medical dispensary” on its signs.

While police focus their attention on London’s newest dispensary, two other low-key ones continue to operate in the city.

Federal opposition critics say the flurry of dispensaries popping up across Canada — there are an estimated 350 — is the result of the federal Liberal government dragging out delivering its election promise to liberalize the country’s pot laws.

The government has said it will introduce legislation to legalize pot next spring, but in many cities pot shops have mushroomed ahead of that.

Dispensaries are illegal in Canada under a federal law that limits the sale of marijuana for medicinal use to a few dozen federally-approved commercial producers. The former Conservative government switched to that system from an older one that allowed approved users to grow their own medical marijuana.

But dispensary operators insist they’re not breaking the law, citing a 2014 federal court decision that said forcing patients to buy their prescription pot from government-approved producers violated their constitutional rights.

Most recently, Health Canada rolled out a new set of rules, which took effect Wednesday, allowing authorized patients to grow their own marijuana for personal use or to designate someone to grow for them.

The Liberals appointed former Toronto police chief Bill Blair, now a Scarborough MP, to play a lead role as the point man on changes to the pot law.